Egypt: Fear of torture / death in custody

20 August 1996, Index number: MDE 12/020/1996

Sayyid 'Abbas Sayyid, Taha Mansour, Sa'id Taghour, Hisham Mohammad 'Abdu, 'Abd al-Hamid Mahmoud Qutb Khalil, Ahmad Mohammad 'Abd al-'Adhim Higazi: Amnesty International has received alarming reports that Ahmad Mohammad 'Abd al-'Adhim Higazi died last week in the headquarters of the State Security Investigations Department allegedly as a result of torture. All the men named above were among a group of suspected members of Talai' al-Fatah, a splinter group of al-Gihad (Holy Struggle) arrested in July 1996.